It looks like my posts are about to disappear, so I guess it’s time to get back to blogging.
I got back to K-Town late Sunday night. Had a pretty good time in Wilmington, NC. The town seems like a decent place to live if you’re into smaller towns. A small port, nearby beaches, a college, lots of historic houses. One thing I noticed about it, however, was that no matter where you drive, it seems like you spend most of your time waiting at stop lights. And I’m not a fan of stop lights. And to add to the beauty of it they’ve got a bunch of cameras to nap the unsuspecting red light runner.
I went to the ocean twice. The weather cooperated in giving me a couple of 70 degree days. Not bad for mid-November. Conditions must typically not be too bad there, however. Because I saw a couple weddings on the beach. Either that or there were a couple of adventurous wedding planners.
I do have a few pictures to post later.
If you locate Wilmington on the map, you’ll note that it’s isolated in the middle of no where, I fact not lost on you when driving there and back. I can almost understand why that’s big ‘Neck Car country–because there’s nothing else there.
So what did I miss the past few days? Judging from the TV news, it’s not the routing chaos in Iraq, nor is it a bunch of hunters getting killed: it’s BasketBrawl! Interestingly, assaults like the ones Friday night go on all the time in some parts of the country, almost without notice. But include a few millionaires and locate them in a public arena that white people frequent and news anchors that know very little about sports are all over the story.
Memo to talking heads: we don’t need your talk radio brethren or sports psychologists to figure out what happened. Players possessing little self control got angry and tried to take things out on some fans. Oh, and if the brawl is as repulsive as you say, it’s interesting that you keep showing it over and over.